Outskirts of Naples, year 2022, Desiré is a 16-year-old Senegalese girl who lives day by day. She has no friends, no interests, no great passions; her world appears as empty as the gaze of her mother, a drug addict who can’t stand up. The only thing she appreciates is her affection for Emanuele, a boy a few years older who seeks a rapid rise in the local underworld. One night, Emanuele convinces her to act as a courier for the local underworld: the two boys are given a backpack which they must deliver to a specific location in the city. Desiré finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time: she is arrested by the police and locked up in the juvenile penitentiary on the island of Nisida, on the border with Naples. During her long detention which lasts 18 months, Desiré begins a slow path of identity growth, she begins to feel attracted to the theatre, in prison she finds the tools to express herself that paradoxically she didn’t have in freedom, her dormant pleasure for singing fades away. something more, it is a value, it is awareness. Parallel to her inner journey, external events take an unexpected turn: members of the underworld are looking for the backpack which has not been found since that night..